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Corrigan, Patrick W.; Morris, Scott; Larson, Jon; Rafacz, Jennifer; Wassel, Abigail; Michaels, Patrick; Wilkniss, Sandra; Batia, Karen; Rusch, Nicolas – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
Self-stigma can undermine self-esteem and self-efficacy of people with serious mental illness. Coming out may be one way of handling self-stigma and it was expected that coming out would mediate the effects of self-stigma on quality of life. This study compares coming out to other approaches of controlling self-stigma. Eighty-five people with…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Mental Disorders, Quality of Life, Factor Analysis
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Hoffmann, Elizabeth A. – Teaching Sociology, 2006
Sociologists have documented how important place is in people's lives. C. Wright Mills (1959) argued that people must understand that they do not exist in a vacuum, but that their values, beliefs, and behaviors are influenced by the particular time and place in which they themselves exist. The development of this "sociological…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Role, Self Concept, Quality of Life
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Inc., Hartford, CT. – 1994
This learning guide is designed to connect personal, family, and job responsibilities for adults and out-of-school youth in economically depressed areas of the state (including transitional ex-offenders and corrections populations) so that these individuals learn to manage and balance these aspects of their lives in order to prepare for or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Educational Resources
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Inc., Hartford, CT. – 1994
This learning guide is designed to connect personal, family, and job responsibilities for adults and out-of-school youth in economically depressed areas of the state (including transitional ex-offenders and corrections populations) so that these individuals learn to manage and balance these aspects of their lives in order to prepare for or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Educational Resources